The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the lives of many is indisputable. Among
the possible strategies to cope with the feeling of insecurity that comes with this, religion can …

Objective Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward
increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they …

Scholars of religion have long sought to explain the persistent finding that women tend to
report greater religiosity than men. However, the size of this “gender gap” may depend on …

Nothing puzzles sociologists of religion more than the reasons and the patterns behind
religious change. In the literature on secularization processes, it is broadly accepted that …

Humans across the globe use supernatural beliefs to explain the world around them. This
article explores whether cultural groups invoke the supernatural more to explain natural …

Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and
subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We …

It is now abundantly clear that social norms channel behaviour and impact economic
development. This insight leads to the question: How do social norms evolve? In a …

In A Need for Religion: Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World Francesco
Molteni tries to answer one of the broadest questions for scholars of religion: why is …

Emerging research shows the COVID‐19 pandemic has made substantial changes to the
religious climate of several nations. Surprisingly, China, the outbreak center of the …

Relying on a unique survey of more than 15,000 healthcare workers conducted from June to
August 2020 in Italy, we show that religious priming caused participants to have a less …